Giangiacomo Feltrinelli

Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (19 June 1926-14 March 1972) was an Italian left-wing activist and publisher who was murdered in 1972 during the "Years of Lead".

Biography
Giangiacomo Feltrinelli was born in Milan, Italy in 1926 to a wealthy family, and he joined the Italian Co-belligerent Army and the Italian Communist Party during World War II, fighting against the German Wehrmacht and the remnants of Benito Mussolini's army. He inherited the vast majority of his father's wealth in 1947, and he began a left-wing library after 1949. In 1954, he established a publishing company in Milan, and his translation of the anti-Soviet book Dr. Zhivago led to him leaving the PCI in 1958, although he remained on good terms with them. He spent the 1960s travelling the world and meeting Third World leaders and guerrilla movements, and he gave financial support to the Palestine Liberation Front. In 1968, he went to Sardinia to make contact with left-wing and separatist groups on the island, intending to liberate the island from "colonialism" and make it into a "Cuba of the Mediterranean". However, his attempts were nullified by the Italian security services, and, in 1970, he founded the Partisan Action Groups (GAP), the second militant organization after the Red Brigades to be formed during the "Years of Lead". On 14 March 1972, he was mugged by Italian police and tied to the pylon of a high-voltage power line at Segrate in Lombardy, and he was then killed with a bomb. His death was orchestrated in a way that made it appear as if he had died in an accidental suicide while attempting to sabotage the pylon.